In Starostin, this is reconstructed as *thaʔ in Old Chinese and subsumed under Proto-Sino-Tibetan*dhăH (/*thăH)(“to put; to place”), whence also 署 (OC *djas, “to place; to position”), Tibetanགདའ(gda', “to be; to be there”), གདན(gdan, “seat; residence”) and Burmeseထား(hta:, “to put; to place”).